Car runs into train in Hegewisch

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Staff report

A truck ran into a train in the Hegewisch neighborhood early Sunday morning.

The driver was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition. The crash happened about 1:50 a.m. at the crossing at 130th Street and Torrence Avenue on the Southeast Side, police said.

Police said the driver was trying to cross the tracks before the train reached the crossing and that alcohol was not a factor in the crash.